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Albums:

50. Rico Nasty: "Nasty"
49. SOPHIE: "OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES"
48. Drug Church: "Cheer"
47. Lil Baby & Gunna: "Drip Harder"
46. Jon Hopkins: "Singularity"
45. The 1975: "A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships"
44. Denzel Curry: "TA1300"
43. Oneohtrix Point Never: "Age Of"
42. Holy Fawn: "Death Spells"
41. Camp Cope: "How to Socialise & Make Friends"
40. Young Fathers: "Cocoa Sugar"
39. MGMT: "Little Dark Age"
38. Janelle Monáe: "Dirty Computer"
37. Birds in Row: "We Already Lost the World"
36. Ryley Walker: "Deafman Glance"
35. Earl Sweatshirt: "Some Rap Songs"
34. Kamasi Washington: "Heaven and Earth"
33. Dear Nora: "Skulls Example"
32. Tirzah: "Devotion"
31. The Armed: "Only Love"
30. Iceage: "Beyondless"
29. Teyana Taylor: "K.T.S.E."
28. Kali Uchis: "Isolation"
27. Adrianne Lenker: "abysskiss"
26. U.S. Girls: "In a Poem Unlimited"
25. Fucked Up: "Dose Your Dreams"
24. Wild Pink: "Yolk in the Fur"
23. Noname: "Room 25"
22. Rolo Tomassi: "Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It"
21. Rosalía: "El Mal Querer"
20. Tomberlin: "At Weddings"
19. Illuminati Hotties: "Kiss Yr Frenemies"
18. Hop Along: "Bark Your Head Off, Dog"
17. Half Waif: "Lavender"
16. Brockhampton: "Iridescence"
15. Spiritualized: "And Nothing Hurt"
14. Vince Staples: "FM"
13. Lucy Dacus: "Historian"
12. Robyn: "Honey"
11. Pusha T: "Daytona"
10. Mitski: "Be the Cowboy"
9. Father John Misty: "God's Favorite Customer"
8. Low: "Double Negative"
7. Soccer Mommy: "Clean"
6. Flasher: "Constant Image"
5. Beach House: "7"
4. Cardi B: "Invasion of Privacy"
3. Ariana Grande: "Sweetener"
2. Snail Mail: "Lush"
1. Kacey Musgraves: "Golden Hour"

I am thrilled with how well Kacey Musgraves is doing on these lists. Very well deserved, in my opinion!

The best albums on this list are all outside the top 20

Setherex wrote: 3. Ariana Grande: "Sweetener"

This has been the biggest surprise so far. I know there's been a huge trend lately toward The P-word Which Will Not Be Named (at least by me, because I can't stand that word), but when did Grande become such a critical darling all of a sudden?

Harold wrote:

Setherex wrote: 3. Ariana Grande: "Sweetener"

This has been the biggest surprise so far. I know there's been a huge trend lately toward The P-word Which Will Not Be Named (at least by me, because I can't stand that word), but when did Grande become such a critical darling all of a sudden?

Thanks to poptimism she got good reviews anyway and then the Manchester bombing and her reponse to it won a lot of people over

charliepanayi wrote:

Harold wrote:

Setherex wrote: 3. Ariana Grande: "Sweetener"

This has been the biggest surprise so far. I know there's been a huge trend lately toward The P-word Which Will Not Be Named (at least by me, because I can't stand that word), but when did Grande become such a critical darling all of a sudden?

Thanks to poptimism she got good reviews anyway and then the Manchester bombing and her reponse to it won a lot of people over

I'm in my late 40s & 'thank u, next' & 'no tears left to cry' are great. Not yet listened to album as wasn't really into 'God is a woman'

However I do draw the line at titles in lower case